Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]Me, in my head, every time I hear or read the phrase "land grant institution" used only as a reference to our institution's noble public mission.
Some context re: the land grants -- this does not refer to the Erie, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Monongahela, Shawnee, Susquehannock, and Wahzhazhe Nations. By the time our school was founded, white settlers had already forcibly removed them.
The land grant that was of 776,000 acres from lands of over 100 tribes, bands, and nations to our west, ranging from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. These were then sold for our endowment.
Kate Kirby
Todd Grotenhuis